11.7.23 - I Corinthians 12: 5-6
When was the last time you imagined as a living part of your everyday faithfulness? How might you take a moment and imagine a God with us (Immanuel) as you navigate your day today?
and there are varieties of services but the same Lord, and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in everyone.
Verses like these remind us that diversity matters.
We have a tendency or a bias toward things that affirm our beliefs or ideas or experiences of something.
We need variety. We need not to be the same, see the same, experience the same.
God's activity is the genesis of our diversity, God is located in our diversity.
I'm fairly certain these days that our biggest sin is a lack or belittling of imagination.
Churches participate in groupthink, pushing diverse ideas and imaginings to the margins; communities of faith function to preserve history rather than listen for a Spirit of innovation.
Likewise, our faith suffers from an inability to experience God as a part of our everyday lives. Instead, settling for a God apart from our lives.
When was the last time you imagined as a living part of your everyday faithfulness? How might you take a moment and imagine a God with us (Immanuel) as you navigate your day today?
-- Jason Whitehead